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Subject:      Re: Something like a runs test for multinomial data?
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El 04/10/2011 17:16, Bruce Weaver escribió:
> Hi Marta.  First, thank you for starting a new thread!  Second, I think some
> of the regulars in the sci.stat.* newsgroups might be able to help with
> this.  (I'm thinking of people like Ray Koopman, who seems to know just
> about everything about nonparametric tests, and a lot of other things to
> boot.)  If you like, I could re-post your question to sci.stat.math.

Sure, do that, please. Also, I'm going to try David suggestion
concerning lagged values.

I leave for my class now. I'm going to ask the student to send me a copy
of the dataset to start trying all the ideas.

Thanks (Bruce&David)
Marta GG
>
> Cheers,
> Bruce
>
>
>
> Marta García-Granero-2 wrote:
>> Hi everybody:
>>
>> This is strictly not a SPSS question, but statistical.
>>
>> One of my students has rolled 700 times (he must have a lot of time) a
>> role-playing game dice with 10 faces. We have already solved (through a
>> goodness of fit test) whether the dice is balanced or not, but now he
>> asked me how to test if the sequence is random.
>>
>> I know that runs test needs either a continuous variable (that is
>> dichotomized), or a binary one. I did a bit of Googling (plus looking at
>> every statistics  book from my digital collection), and the only ideas I
>> have found are:
>>
>> - Permutation tests (difficult since the sample size is really high,
>> although I could take the first 100 to analyze)
>> - Create a set of binary variables with the presence/absence of each
>> category and run 10 different runs tests.
>>
>> We are also trying to find a way to find out whether one given result
>> (dice face) at position N is followed by certain values, but not by
>> others -->  sequence patterns.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marta GG
>>
>> Bruce, I DID start a new thread for this message ;)
>>
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